PHD Georgia State University
MA Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
CONTACT
m_laura.barberan@bcc.cuny.edu
OFFICE
Colston 626
COURSES
ENG 112: Composition II: Writing and Rhetoric
ENG 114: Composition II: Writing about Fiction
ENG 116: Composition II: Writing about Poetry
ENG 125: Great Writers of English Literature II
Dr.Laura Barberán Reinares
Laura is a Professor of English and Literature at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she teaches courses in literature and writing. A native Argentinean, she holds the degree of "Profesora de Lengua Inglesa" from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and a doctorate in Postcolonial/Transnational British and Anglophone Literatures and 20th-century Irish Literature from Georgia State University.
Her research focuses on the intersections of postcolonial literature and theory and human trafficking/transnational migration within the context of globalization. Her book, Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño (Routledge, 2015; 2017), analyzes how postcolonial fiction depicts human trafficking and the discourses such representations legitimize. She has also published articles on postcolonial literature and pedagogy in several peer-reviewed journals. Her article "Globalized Philomels: State Patriarchy, Transnational Capital, and the Femicides on the US-Mexican Border in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666" was awarded the 2012 South Atlantic Review Essay Prize.
She has served on the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Executive Committee, and, since 2014, she serves on the advisory board of the non-profit organization Crossing Point Arts, an NGO that assists trafficked survivors in the NYC area. She is currently a Black, Race and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Faculty Research Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is part of the Relevant Faculty at the Human Rights Hub within the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Areas
Postcolonial/Transnational Literature and Theory, Human Rights, Gender Studies, Human Trafficking, Globalization Studies, Migration Studies, Contemporary British and Irish literature, Anglophone Literature, Gender-based Violence, "comfort women"